If you were to check my College transcripts then you’d likely consider me to be an urban geographer… I guess that’s why I’ve always been fascinated with the makeup of cities and the complex, interactions between people and place. Having lived through many years of people flocking to the suburbs, and now populations headed back […]
StreetViolence.org, Crowd Sourcing Crime reports and a Citizen Warning System on the Map
I recently read about an interesting project underway in the UK, this courtesy of an article from the MailOnline – The London Mugging Map! Indeed a very interesting project that depends on crowd-sourced information to inform and educate the population on violence. Here’s the idea… using the service (See StreetViolence.org) the user located a place […]
Checkin at SFO Terminal 2 With Loopt and Virgin America
Today, via the Loopt blog, details of a new social location checkin deal from Loopt and Virgin America. Here’s the scoop, starting Sept 26 a simple check-in at Terminal 2 in San Francisco International Airport (AKA, SFO-T2) gets you a random deal from Virgin America and other T2 partners including Cat Cora’s Kitchen, Kiehl’s, Mondrian […]